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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Price of M68000 ?
Message-ID: <22137@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 01:01:06 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.212936.13680@booth.uucp>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun1.212936.13680@booth.uucp> jrn@booth.uucp (Jim Norton) writes:
>Could somebody tell me what the going cost is for the Motorola 68000 micro-
>processor?

I haven't seen street prices for single quantities recently, but if you pay 
more than $10 a piece, you're being had.  In volume, they go for under $5
each.

>I am in the process of designing a multiprocessing computer around a few
>of them (3 or 4) and need to know if I can afford it.......

They certainly won't be the expensive part of any working multiprocessing
system.  You could spend much more for an efficient processor to processor
link, assuming a loosely coupled system.  A tightly coupled system isn't
really practical with more than two 68000s, and even that's annoying because
of the goofy bus locking mechanism.

>Jim Norton   (jrn@booth.UUCP)


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